VoiP provider recommendations

[Rick Russell]

I just noticed that I butchered the URL for Star Networks. Sorry about that. 
Here is the correct URL http://www.starnetworks.us

Rick

On 8/29/05, Rick Russell <idatasys at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Check out starneteworks.us <http://starneteworks.us>. They are a local 
> viop provider that
> supports IAX. They are mainly business focused as far as I know. I
> have a connection with them and the quality has been great. All of my
> business calls come in over this connection. They are built on
> Asterisk as well.
> 
> I have VoicePulse Connect number as well. It has been great for the
> price. Where else can you get 4 incoming calls over IAX for 12
> dollars a month. All outgoing calls are charges per minute. I had
> some quality problems with them at first, but that seems to have
> cleared up. VoicePulse does have issue with support. I don't think
> that I have ever gotten a live person when I have called them. They
> have had a few short periods of down time over the past 6 months that
> I have been using it. As was mentioned before they don't have Arizona
> numbers.
> 
> Rick Russell
> iDataSys.com
> 
> On 8/29/05, Nick Estes <nick at nickstoys.com> wrote:
> > Good providers that interface well with Asterisk are hard to find. Of
> > those around, I've only used iConnectHere (sip) and VoicePulse Connect
> > (iax). The only problem with VoicePulse is they don't yet have AZ area
> > codes, but the service has been great for the year or two I've been 
> using
> > it, and the price is reasonable too. ICH has a cheap way to demo it, but
> > I wasn't happy with their service at all. Maybe it's improved since I
> > last used it, but I'm far happier with voicepulse, especially due to 
> their
> > iax support.
> >
> > If you're just looking to mess around with voip without spending 
> anything
> > and without access to anyone in particular, free world dialup and iaxtel
> > are good to use. I have both of those in my asterisk setup, mostly
> > because I can, and also because it has, on a few occasions, been a nice
> > cheap way to talk to people.
> >
> > Of the billions of non-asterisk compatible providers out there, I've 
> used
> > Packet8 and Vonage (still use vonage for company phone/fax, until
> > voicepulse gets az area codes anyway). Of the two, my opinion is that
> > Vonage's service is a little better, and Packet8's support is a little
> > better; although, both are certainly usable.
> >
> > I'm also interested in anyone else's experience with asterisk compatible
> > providers, especially those that do iax.
> >
> > --Nick
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, der.hans wrote:
> >
> > > moin, moin,
> > >
> > > JD wanna post the recommendations from your slides?
> > >
> > > Anybody else have recommendations for or against certain providers?
> > >
> > > ciao,
> > >
> > > der.hans
> > >
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